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Lewis Hamilton hit out at “yapping critics” after earning a shock victory in his new Ferrari to win the win the Chinese Grand Prix Sprint.

The seven-time world champion said “uneducated guesses” were made about his Ferrari debut last weekend, where he finished 10th in Melbourne.

Hamilton’s blockbuster move put the spotlight firmly on his first drive, where teething problems and a strategical error resulted in his finish just inside the points.

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Both Hamilton and his new team appeared to put those issues to one side however when he held off Max Verstappen in Saturday’s 19-lap race, making Ferrari’s first-ever Sprint win.

“I really do feel a lot of people underestimated the steep climb it is to get into a new team, become acclimatised within the team, understanding and communication – all sorts of things,” Hamilton said.

“The amount of critics and people I heard, yapping along the way, clearly not understanding maybe because they never had the experience or were unaware.

“It felt great to come here and be more comfortable in the car because in Melbourne I didn’t feel great in the car. From lap one this weekend we have been on it.”

Hamilton: People are making uneducated guesses

Hamilton went on to place fifth in qualifying for Sunday’s Grand Prix as McLaren’s Oscar Piastri claimed his first pole.

Asked one again about his start to life at Ferrari in the subsequent press conference, Hamilton stressed it was never going to be a seamless transition.

“I’m not really talking back to them or anything like that,” he added. “It’s just we live in such a strange time in the world that people just love to be negative at any opportunity, even with the smallest things, you love to be negative about it. That’s the difficult time that we’re living in.

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“I see certain individuals, and again, I don’t really read the news, but I see bits here and there. I see people that I’ve admired for years just talking out of turn. Clearly, some of them really just making uneducated guesses of what’s going on.

“There’s a real lack of appreciation of, it is not easy moving to a new team that works completely different, a completely different characteristic of car. You don’t just jump in and it’s good.

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“It’s true if you look at Seb, you look at Fernando, they did a great job when they joined the team in their early phases.

“But to build long-term success with the team takes time and that’s what I’m trying to do. I’m not trying to jump-start it or get ahead of myself. I’m just taking my time to build with this great team. There’s so much potential in this team.

“For us to be at the second race already and have that experience, this is a track I’ve gone well at for many, many years, so you have got to take that a little bit.

“But in general, I’ve been feeling really good in the car, and as I’m learning more where the car likes to be set up for a track like this, for example, when I get to another track, the site, the last one, I think I have a bit of a better understanding of where to put it.”

Hamilton also suggested the contrast in performances from last weekend’s GP and this weekend’s Sprint is an indication to not get carried away by Saturday’s result.

“We’ve just come from a race where we finished 10th, so there are so many factors to really take into account,” he added.

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“We just can’t get ahead of ourselves off that one result that we just had.

“The car felt good today, and yes, managed to finish ahead of a McLaren and a Red Bull. But that doesn’t necessarily mean… you know, look at qualifying, it’s very, very close.

“So not making the mistakes is going to be key. But I think we seem to be there or thereabouts this weekend, which is really good.

“I hope that that continues. But again, from track to track, we’ll have to wait and see. We saw last week we didn’t have that.

“I’m hoping that there’s a lot of learnings from last week that we applied already to this week and the car has been in a much better place, so I hope that we can keep it there. And if we can, then yes, that makes me happy.”

The Chinese Grand Prix starts on 7am UK time on Sunday.

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